Diversity Celebration Day - a selection of photos

What an amazing day we had! Thank you, thank you, thank you! to everyone who made it possible.

Chinese Drumming

Samoan Sasa

Ti rakau (Maori stick games)

Aboriginal Art

Ukrainian Dumplings

Origami

Brazilian Art

Spanish lessons

Diwali sweets

Ukrainian Doll-making

Yoga

Japanese Taiko drumming

Argentinian Tango

Calligraphy

Eritrean culture

Korean dress & culture

Rangoli patterns

Folk dancing

French culture

Bollywood Dancing

Karate

Japanese food

Mask Making

There are so many people to thank for making this day such a success. Firstly to our absolutely amazing parent community, we couldn’t have done this without you! Please thank:

·        Priscila, Alessandra & Heloisa for teaching us about native Brazilian art

·        Kavita for showing us how to make yummy Diwali sweets and Sunita for teaching us about Indian Rangoli patterns

·        Sarah Stokes & her mum for teaching us about Aboriginal Art

·        Tamila Mostipan (and friends) for showing us how to make Ukrainian dolls and Anzelika Romanenko (and friends) for teaching us how to make Ukrainian dumplings

·        Francois Profit and Phil Jordan for enlightening us about French culture

·        Senait Ghebremichael for teaching us more about Eritrea

·        Carla Moore & Joanna Pleszek for helping us to learn Spanish

·        Diana Bain for teaching us how to Tango, Argentinian style! and her daughter, Ruby Reid for her amazing mask making skills

·        Kensuke Hayashi (& Catherine Murata) for the Japanese food & games

Also a very special thank you to the Asia New Zealand Foundation for providing us the funding to employ:

·        Michaela Sangl from Yogikids

·        Alka Suresh from the Aaja Nachle Bollywood Dancing School

·        Rae Storey from New Wave Folk Dancing

·        Murray Simpson from Karate Remuera

·        Steven from the Tamashii Taiko Drumming school

·        Peggy for teaching us Origami

·        Rita (+ Edwin & Oscar) for sharing their Chinese drumming

·        Jean-Francois Vognin for the Chinese Calligraphy lesson

As well as Daniel & Yoomi from the Korean Education Centre for teaching us traditional Korean games

And lastly, thank you to our talented teachers who shared their expertise:

·        Suzanne Parkinson for teaching us Maori language and games

·        Val Marra for teaching us the Samoan Sasa

·        Kate Gomez for teaching us more about English Culture

·        Andy Dwyer for teaching us tī rākau (stick games)

Sincerely,

Anna Hedstrom and the Social Studies team (Mel Barr, Rachel Crowther & Emma Williams)